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Abstract

This Solution intends to provide a zero touch configuration in a DC Network, and allows an AOS switch to act as a plug and play data center bridge.

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

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India

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English (United States)

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Zero Touch Configuration In Data Centre Bridging

In Data Center (DC) bridging, deployment currently requires more
user interventions to configure Fibre-Channel Over Ethernet (FCoE) bridging or
interworking of FCoE and Fibre-Channel (FC) networks. When a new bridge is
deployed, administrator has to manually configure the pre-requisites to accept
FC/FCoE frames and to establish sessions. This manual configuration when
introducing new DC Top of the Rack (TOR) or DC Switches that have the
capability to communicate to the FC as well as FCoE devices, takes time and is also
prone to human errors.

An Administrator has to configure the Port roles, VLAN and VSAN
for the FCoE and FC network equipments, at the time of introducing a new DC Network
element into the network. The proposed solution allows the new DC Network
Element to Learn the Port Roles like Fibre Channel (NPIV,R-NPIV,E-Tunnel) or
FCoE (Enode connected port, FCF Port, VE port), Fibre Channel VLAN through
snooping the incoming packets and hence automatically learning from the
network. This Solution intends to provide a zero touch configuration in a DC
Network, and allows an AOS switch to act as a plug and play data center bridge.

1.
When a port is connected to a network, the switch control-unit
tries to configures the pre-requisite setting for FC ports/FCoE ports to accept
the frames for a given auto configuration period.

2.
Based on the received frames, respective port related, VLAN &
VSAN related configurations will be decided and applied automatically. Once the
configuration is applied, the switch learns the FC/FCoE devices connected and
establishes required sessions. Within the stipulated time, if the switch could
not determine the network topology based on received packets, then the settings
applied will be reverted to the original default settings on the respective
ports. The Administrator can configure whether auto learned configuration has
to be retained over reloads or not.

3.
Today, when a data center switch is deployed in a network, the
administrator has to know the network topology where the DC bridge is deployed
and the administrator has to configure the port roles based on the peer-end
device (for ex, if the FCoE port is connected to FCoE Forwarder (FCF),
configure the role as FCF_Only, if the FCoE port is connected to ENode directly
then configure the port role as EDGE etc
and if the FC port is connected to HBA, then configure the port role as F_port,
if the FC port is connected to a FC switch (FCS), then configure the port role
as NP etc). Once the port configuration is decided, the administrator has to
configure the FCoE VLANs, VSANs and need to associate all the FCoE and FC ports
to VLANs and VSANs respectively. In wide range of deployments, configuring all
the pre-requisites to establish FCoE or FC sessions is a tedious job for any
administrator and is error prone because of more user intervention. To address
this concern, the proposed system auto configures the DC bridg...